Word: dads
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...fact-checkers? Without our own knowledge to draw on, we must rely on the kindness of strangers. Admittedly, people who edit massive online encyclopedias in their spare time are probably not dangerous psychopaths, but there are plenty of pranksters out there who add things like “My dad knew him” to articles on Idiosyncrasy. This is hilarious, but without some tidbits bouncing around our own crania, we become unable to sift fact from fiction. This is dangerous...
...worthwhile—if only for the kid in you. Bolt (John Travolta) is an American white shepherd whose owner is a teen celebrity named Penny (Miley Cyrus). Together they star in a TV show where Bolt uses his many superpowers to protect Penny while she rescues her dad from the evil Dr. Calico and his cat minions. The catch—to the endless amusement of the cats on the set—is that Bolt has never been outside the studio and thinks that the show is real. All is well until a ruthless network executive shows...
Kids, dogs and mother-in-law humor: it's as if the Obamas are launching an early '60s sitcom before our eyes. With good reason: the First Family--elect may represent a big social shift, but their retro, TV Land ordinariness helped get America comfortable with Dad. Quipping with 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft, Barack and Michelle echoed not J.F.K. and Jackie but rather Rob and Laura Petrie--she, the amiably needling supporter; he, the self-deprecatingly put-upon hubby joking about Michelle's asking him to take the girls to school the morning after the election. This fall, on every...
...turn into Look Who's Coming to Washington fetishization. A New York Times article about the Obamas' school search described "little girls ... swooning over the prospect of White House sleepovers with the daughters of the nation's first black President," as if kids care about the race of the dad handing out the invites. There's a gaping tone to some of the coverage: Wow, just look at them...
...dad tells me I was reading box scores in the newspaper at 5 years old,” Silverman said...